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W. LILLEY & W. S. GHEDISTER.

COMBINED PENCIL, 'EYBGLASS, TICKET, AND BOUQUET HOLDER. N0. 301,133.Patented July 1,1884.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 301,133, dated July 1,188%.

' Application filed February 20, 1884. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, .VVILKINS LILLEY and WVINFIELD S. CHEDISTER,citizens of the United States, residing in the city of Newark, in Essexcounty, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPencil, Eyeglass, Ticket, and Bouquet Holders, fully described andrepresented in the following specification and the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention consists in an article of manufacture adapted to take theplace of several different devices-such as have heretoforebeen used forsecuring a pencil, bouquet, ticket, or eyeglass upon the dress of theuser; and it contains a spring-socket adapted to hold a pencil, aspring-hook adapted to engage the cord or ring of an eyeglass, or theedge of a card or ticket, and a spring-socket for carrying a bouquet,the same being held elastically by the spring-hook. It also includes abaseplate provided with a fastening-pin, such as is common to otherpencil or bouquet holders; but the plate is provided, when desired, withan ornamental covering of celluloid or other suitable material.

The construction claimed will be understood by reference to the annexeddrawings, in which Figure 1 shows the entire device in perspective, witha penc il orbouquet held therein, the latter being indicated merely bydotted lines, as Well as the pencil. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the entireconstruction. Fig. 8 is an edgeview of the same. Fig. 4 is a plan of thesame. Figs. 5 and 6 are, respectively, rfront and edge Views of thebouquet-clip, and Fig. 7 is a detached front view of the ornamentalcoveringplate.

A is a metallic plate forming the body of the device, and constructed atone side with a tongue, B, bent horizontallyto form a pencilsocket, anda tongue, 0, at the bottom bent upward upon the front side to form aspringhook and clip. A pin, D, is secured in or to the plate to securethe plate and its attachments to the dress of the user, and the plate ispreferably concealed by an ornamental facing, E, formed of celluloid,ivory, or other suitable material large enough to entirely cover themetallic plate A. WVhen not formed with such facing, the spring-clamp orbouquetholdcr F would be .secured to the plate A in the same manner asis common. It is shown secured to the facing E in the annexed drawings.The said holder or clamp consists of a metallic piece having a shank, t,at its bottom end, fitted'to a slot or mortise, s, in the lower part ofthe plate A or facing E, and flared upwardly from such shank andoutwardly from the plate A, so as to leave a cavity between such holderand the plate for the insertion of a bouquet. As the hook 0 curvesupward in front of the piece F, it necessarily presses upon the convexfront of the latter, and thus serves to retain the shank t'perma nentlyin the slot 8, while it holds the piece elastically against the plateAor facing E, and thus clamps the bouquet against the same. The operationof the hook G inthus pressing upon the piece F to secure a bouquettherein is shown in Fig. 1, where G represents the bouquet, and H apencil, both of such objects being indicated merely by dotted lines toavoid obscuring the other parts. the hook O as a clip or ticket-holderis shown in Fig, 3, where a card, I, is shown inserted between the innerside of the hook and the outer side of the piece or holder F, the cardbeing retained by the elasticity of the hook, the point of which is bentoutward to admit the card more readily. The flaring or conical form ofthe piece F above the shank t is shown in Figs. 8 and 4E, and the shapeof the shank is shown in Figs. 6 and 7 bent to enter the transverse slotor mortise s, which is shown, for illustration, in the ornamental facingE in Fig. 5. Such slot may be formed, as stated above, directly in theplate A, when the ornamental facingE is not desired, and the spring hookoperate thereon the same as if the facing were used. The facing is shownin the figures secured to the plate A by two rivets, r, Fig.

.2; but any other means of fastening may be used, as by tongues bentfrom the plate A and riveted into the facing. Openings are shown in thepiece F; but these may be omitted, as they are only used for ornamentaleffect.

From the'above description it will be seen that the pencil-holderconsists merely in an open and expansible socket or loop of metal (as inprevious constructions) formed bybending the tongue B at one side of thefoundation plate A; but it is also formed from the same plate as thespring-hook O, and it may be seen The operation of that the bent end ofthe spring-hook is formed to press toward the plate A, and to thussecure anything inserted between the hook and plate, as the card I orbouquet-holder F. The construction of the tongues B and C integral withthe plate A thus avoids the joining of separate pieces, as in manysimilar construe.

tions, and the hook G is also enabled, by its arrangement relative tothe piece F,.to effect three different functions-namely, the clamping ofthe bouquet-holder or bouquet against the plate A," the holding of acard, as shown in Fig. 3, and the supporting of an eyeglass or any otherobj'ectprovided with an eye, ring, or string adapted to-pass over thetip of the hook and hang in its bottom loop, a.

We are fully aware that many forms of penoil, ticket, and bouquetholders have been constructed heretofore; but most of them areuncombined with others, or when thus combined the construction is notmade toserve the same purpose as that we have devised. We thereforedisclaim a pencil, ticket, eyeglass, or bouquet holder as a separatearticle; but,

Having distinguished our own construction, and the manner in which wehave combined a pencil, eyeglass, ticket, and bouquet holder in a singleimplement; as well as the ornamentation we provide for the base-plate,We claim the same in the following manner:

1. As an improved article of manufacture, the combined pencil, eyeglass,ticket, and bouquet holder, consisting in the plate A, having integraltongues B and O, and the piece F, mortised into the plate A at s, andpressed toward the plate by the hook G, the plate being provided with afastening-pin, as D, the whole arranged substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, the combined pencil, eyeglass,ticket, and bouquet holder, consisting in the plate A, constructed withthe tongues B and O, bent as described, and provided with the pin D, asset forth, and having the facing or ornamental covering E, having slotor mortise s, and the piece F, having shank t fitted to the slot andpressed toward the plate by the spring-hook 0, all substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

WILKINS LILLEY. W. S. CHEDISTER.

Witnesses:

THos. S. CRANE, O. O. HERRICK.

